NEWS: SWMRS to Support FIDLAR on US Fall Tour, VMAN Premieres Tour Documentary
OAKLAND, CA - June 15, 2016 - Bay Area quartet SWMRS will provide direct support FIDLAR on their upcoming US Tour. The "Too Much Tour" will kick off on October 28 in San Diego, CA and wrap on November 22 in Denver, CO. Having produced the band's 2016 debut, FIDLAR frontman Zac Carper offered, "After spending so much time with these guys in the studio, I can't wait to bring them out on the road.They're like our little brothers." Tickets for the Too Much Tour are on sale this Friday 6/17 at 10:00am local time and are available HERE.
Prior to embarking on the Too Much Tour with FIDLAR, SWMRS will hit the road for a North American headlining tour which kicks off this Friday June 17 in Calgary, AB and wraps on July 17 in Lancaster, CA. The band will then return to The UK in August for performances including Reading and Leeds. A complete list of upcoming tour dates can be found HERE.
In April, SWMRS wrapped their first North American headlining tour, performing 44 shows in 50 days, across 26 states and three Canadian provinces. Los Angeles filmmaker and longtime FIDLAR collaborator Ryan Baxley accompanied the band, documenting the tour on Super 8mm film for the short documentary "I'm Afraid To Go Home" which VMAN premiered this morning. Watch it HERE.
Too Much Tour with SWMRS and The Frights:
October 28. 2016 - The Observatory North Park - San Diego, CA
October 29, 2016 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
October 30, 2016 - The Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ
October 31, 2016 - Rialto Theatre - Tucson, AZ
November 3, 2016 - Trees - Dallas, TX
November 7, 2016 - The Masquerade, Heaven Stage - Atlanta, GA
November 8, 2016 - Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN
November 10, 2016 - The Howard Theatre - Washington, DC
November 11, 2016 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
November 12, 2016 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
November 14, 2016 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
November 18, 2016 - The Rave II - Milwaukee, WI
November 19, 2016 - Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN
November 22, 2016 - Gothic Theatre - Denver, CO
Last month, SWMRS sat down with Zane Lowe for an exclusive interview on his Apple Music Beats 1 show. Listen to the band discuss demos and early recordings with Lowe HERE. The band then headed across the Atlantic for an interview and in-studio performance on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, delivering an unforgettable cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes". Listen HERE. SWMRS also recently made their European television debut, performing "Figuring It Out" on Canal +'s Le Petit Journal. Watch the clip HERE.
Praised for "defining the sound of now" in Rolling Stone's recent Best New Artists 2016 feature, SWMRS released their debut album Drive North in February via their own Uncool Records. The album is available now HERE. Noisey announced the release and premiered the band's current single "Figuring It Out" praising the track as a "poppy foot-tapper filled with skate-gang vocals." Nylon premiered the band's video for the track, which was directed by fellow Bay Area artist Kreayshawn. Watch the video HERE.
Drive North also features the band's debut single "Miley" which i-D Magazine premiered last fall, hailing the song as "the most punk tribute to Miley Cyrus ever." The band's DIY music video for the track can be seen HERE. Album opener, "Harry Dean" is an abridged version of a previously 17-minute epic the band originally recorded to soundtrack Saint Laurent Paris's Spring/Summer 2016 Presentation, earning them praise from fashion heavyweights like WWD and Interview Magazine.
There's never been a punk band like SWMRS, the Oakland quartet that combines the caustic broadsides of The Clash, the amphetamine bubblegum of the Ramones, and the searing lyrics, propulsive energy, and raw honesty of Public Enemy, Frank Ocean, A Tribe Called Quest and Kurt Cobain. Formed after the dissolution of their previous band, Emily's Army, the childhood friends (Cole Becker, lead vocals, rhythm guitar; Max Becker, lead vocals, lead guitar; Joey Armstrong, drums, backing vocals; and Sebastian Mueller, bass, backing vocals) showcase telepathic chemistry on their formal debut, "Drive North." Produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR, it's suffused with coming of age jams, subversive anthems to Miley Cyrus, and a sense of freedom forged out of modern-day confusion. The guitars draw blood, the drums detonate, the voice is unique-the sound is timeless.
Credit: Alice Baxley
